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Many congratulations to Manasa Gopakumer on winning the highly competitive Temple Graduate School Summer Research Grant!

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Congratulations to Daniel Remer on his new position as Director of Transplant Education & Ethics and Assistant Professor at Temple University Hospital and Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University.

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We had a number of placements out of Temple philosophy department that we would like to acknowledge in this thread!

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Congratulations to Arthur Krieger on his new position as Medical Ethics Education and Training Specialist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

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Congratulations to Hans Shenk, winner of the 2026 Temple Philosophy Graduate Student Service Award, awarded in recognition of Hans' exemplary record of service in the department.

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Congratulations to graduating Philosophy majors Andreas Carleton, Gabija Stewart, and Jada Lenore Wilson, who were honored at the CLA Baccalaureate Award Ceremony! We're so proud of you, and we wish you the best of luck!

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This year many of our undergraduates have had papers accepted for presentation at the GPPC Undergraduate Conference at the University of Delaware. Many congratulations to: Steven King, Dee Toor, Jada Wilson, Eisha Nair, and Andreas Carleton!

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The Center offers grants to outstanding researchers who study the challenges facing democratic regimes worldwide (political, economic, social, and environmental) and the two fundamental pillars – rights and institutions – that work together to bolster democracy.

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Congratulations to Temple philosophy PhD candidate Eli Benjamin who has accepted a post-doc position at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University. He will be joining their research cohort for the 2026–2027 academic year. (More information in the replies)

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This will be part of the Center’s project on "The Challenges of Democracy" where Eli will conduct his research on "Political (Dis)Trust and its Challenges to Democracy," where he will scale his relational framework of trust, developed in his dissertation, to the political domain.

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We are pleased to share that Professor Hammer recently had a conversation with Antonio Carlos Ruiz Soria on Lived Temporality and the Theory of Time as Creation. The conversation is linked below: https://t.co/fYjpkmdi39

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The lecture is entitled "Plato on Wanting and Liking" and it is from 3-5 p.m. in Mazur Hall 821. This event is open to the public.

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We're delighted to welcome Dr. Rachana Kamtekar, Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies at Cornell to give a talk as part of Temple philosophy department's Colloquium series.

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You can read more about the essay and award here: https://t.co/jcr61U0u14

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Many congratulations to Temple Philosophy PhD Candidate Hans Shenk for being awarded by the APA with a Sanders Graduate Award! His is essay entitled: Revisiting Hornsby and Stanley: In Defense of Productive Practical Knowledge.

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We are pleased to announce Yuewen Chen as the recipient of the 2025 Nordev Award! He has received this award for his outstanding essay: “Aristotle on How Pleasure Perfects Activity.”

Congratulations Yuewen!

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Link to the book: https://t.co/N9fZFyzGk2

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Congratulations to Professor Espen Hammer who has co-authored a book with Professor Fred Rush titled: The Routledge Guidebook to Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment. The book is being published by Routledge and will be available on October 27th.

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Professor Espen Hammer will discuss his new book After the Death of God with scholars Donovan Schaefer, Jeffrey Green, Sabina Bremner, and Daniele Lorenzini at the University of Pennsylvania. All are welcome to attend!